Weekly Update

"If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14). 

Join us as we gather with other Christians from the area at Lawyers Mall in Annapolis to pray together for our nation. The gathering will take place 6:30-8pm rain or shine. Parking is free after 6pm at Bladen Street Garage.

We will commemorate and honor the life of Ashley on May 14 at 11:00am at CrossPointe. There will be a luncheon to follow. Please continue to pray for Ashley's family as they grieve, particularly for Robert and Susan. What a blessing it is to have had Ashley in our church family.

Come join us for bagels and donuts after the service on Sunday, May 22. Your Operation Christmas Child (OCC) committee will provide yummy food and drinks and an opportunity to enjoy conversation with your brothers and sisters. All are invited . Donations for this year’s shoeboxes are appreciated. See you there.

We will have baptisms after service on Sunday, 5/29. If you are interested in being baptized that day, contact Ed O'Mara (eomara@crosspointemd.org) or Scott Crook (scrook@crosspointemd.org). 

Michael & Sarah Molinaro will be hosting a new care group, in their home, starting on May 12th. The care group will meet every other week on Thursdays from 6:30-8:30PM. If you are not involved in a care group, please consider joining as a means of strengthening your walk with Christ and deepening your relationships within the CrossPointe community. For more information, contact Michael at mjmolinaro7@gmail.com

As a family of churches, Sovereign Grace is working with an associated church plant in Ukraine and a partner church in Hamburg, Germany to care for those being affected by the ongoing war. To date, Sovereign Grace Churches (SGC) has given over $14,000 to relief efforts. You can watch this video in which Mark Prater, who leads Sovereign Grace, talks about the relief efforts and how SGC is seeking to serve in this trying time. If you would like to give financially you can do so through the Europe Development Fund here (last one on the list) as all monies given will go to disaster relief through this church plant on the ground in Ukraine.

CPC members can use this link to request use of the building for church related contexts - care group, bible study, etc. This will help guard against scheduling conflicts as it will be a means to add church contexts to the church calendar. Thanks for your cooperation in this.

As announced on Sunday, you can go to www.omaras.org to sign up to stay connected with the O'Maras. This website will give you an overview of their plan, how you can support them, and is the gateway to connecting to their monthly letter and social media outlets.

The Middle School Bible Study, led by Greg & Denise Colebrook, is held every 2nd and 4th Sunday in the prayer room.

Also, we have created a Middle School Group on Faithlife where you can see any announcements or updates. You will need to first join CrossPointe's Faithlife group then we can invite you to the Middle School Bible Study Group. We will talk more on Sunday concerning this, but if you have an email and can sign up ahead of time, we can invite you to the group during class on Sunday!

Visit this link to view the most current prayer requests. You will need to be signed into your Faithlife account in order to interact with these prayer requests.

Anniversaries

Napolitano, Rick & Patricia May 17

Skelley, Keith & Kathleen May 27

Colebrook, Gregory & Denise May 28

Spuler, Eddie & Raven, May 29

Birthdays

Amanda Protzman, May 04

Ella Stout, May 04

Adam Ward, May 04

Kaleigh Hurd, May 05

William O'Leary, May 11

Abigail Logan, May 19

Annie Cox, May 20

Sarah Molinaro, May 25

Kerry Keksz, May 26

Maddie Rose McMahon, May 31

Are we missing your anniversary or birthday? 

Please let us know.

Sovereign Grace Missions Update 

There is a new Sovereign Grace mission update about Trinity Fellowship Church in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Trinity Fellowship Church was planted by Michael Granger, his family and a small team in Addis Ababa. They started the Ethiopian Pastors College not long after. This video shares a bit about that story and how our mutual partnership is bearing fruit in the world! Take a few minutes to watch the video update here, and check out the SGC Missions blog here for further information and ways to give!

CrossPointe Church is in partnership with Sovereign Grace Churches in that we share the same mission and values. Here are a few ways to keep in touch with what is going on. 

• Sovereign Grace Churches Main Website
• Sovereign Grace Statement of Faith
• Sovereign Grace Emerging Nations News Stream
• Sovereign Grace Journal